When it comes to the Las Vegas Strip and nightclubs, the prevailing thought used to be that you couldn’t have one without the other.
Kathleen Dunbar threw out the first joke of the first night of the reborn comedy club: "Anybody wants to buy a football autographed by O.J., let me know."
Back when Edwin McCain was promoting his song “I’ll Be” — which is now a wedding standard — he did every crazy stunt his record label asked him to do.
Confession? Makes the soul whole again. Even after it’s fled the body.
He’s been known to drink his Jack Daniels out of a pint glass, he’s been said to have bedded more than 1,000 women, and even at 64, you still wouldn’t want to leave your daughter alone with him without a cattle prod.
Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Fleetwood Mac play the MGM Grand Garden arena on May 30. Tickets are $55, $85 and $165 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday at the MGM Grand box office, 3799 Las Vegas Blvd. South, and Ticketmaster outlets.
Next weekend is the Super Bowl, so we can look forward to a variety of football-related promotions and parties (some by invitation only, others open to every one over 21). Please note that casinos are forbidden by NFL copyright to use the words “Super Bowl” in their advertising, which is why you see a variety of other terms such as “The Big Game.”
Love it or hate it, it’s lutefisk time again. The 11th annual lutefisk dinner by the Vegas Viking Lodge of Sons of Norway is scheduled for Feb. 7 at the Boulder City Elks Lodge, 1217 Nevada Highway. There will be two seatings, at 3 and 6 p.m. The dinner will include lutefisk with melted butter or white sauce, surk?l with roasted pork, boiled potatoes, peas and carrots, Norwegian cookies and lefse. Dinners are $17 for adults and $5 for children 11 and younger. There will be no sales at the door; tickets must be reserved by Jan. 30. For details, call Gwen Knighton at 869-5775. …
In the week since Gov. Jim Gibbons’ State of the State address, I have alternated between outraged and bemused concerning his plan to gut the state budget.
In the end, the case — and, in all likelihood, the Nevada political career — of former beauty queen, former Las Vegas City Councilwoman and former Clark County Commissioner Lynette Boggs (formerly Lynette Boggs McDonald) wrapped up with the proverbial whimper.
If they put me in charge of the International Consumer Electronics Show, I’d make some changes.
From water-stingy toilets and electricity sparing appliances, to flooring and siding made from sustainable materials, the housing industry this week rolled out many new, “green” products it hopes will lure homebuyers back into the market.
International Game Technology missed its first-quarter earnings estimates and saw profits decline 42 percent from a year ago — but things could have been worse.
The top executive for Crown Ltd. told gaming regulators Thursday the Australian-based gaming company does not plan sweeping changes at Cannery Casino Resorts when it completes its purchase of the casino operator later this year.
Proof of a sports car’s validity is sometimes seen when its successor is highly refined as opposed to heavily made over.
Findlay Cadillac Saab in the Valley Automall is kicking off the new year with two events, a benefit for the Miracle Flights for Kids charity and Cadillac Through the Years, a classic car show.
Keith Walton, service adviser of Gaudin Jaguar, was awarded the Marque of Distinction award from Jaguar Land Rover North America LLC in November.
When my friend Sarah Larson, with whom I have a travel-adventure show in development, asked me to drive with her to Seattle from Los Angeles with a U-Haul filled with belongings she needed to return to her family, I imagined we would be adding a hitch to the car and pulling a U-Haul trailer behind us.
At a time when many local auto dealerships are struggling to obtain suitable finance terms for their customers, Mike Guidry and the finance team at Chapman Chrysler Jeep have turned these challenges into opportunities for Chapman customers.
Like a magician pulling a rabbit from a hat, car creator Gene Winfield seemingly makes the impossible possible.